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1. Testing Drupal with Ghosts and Gherkins at DrupalCampNJ February 2013

   This weekend marked the second annual DrupalCamp New Jersey at beautiful Princeton University.

   I was happy to fill in when a presenter dropped out and presented a session called "Testing Drupal with Ghosts and Gherkins". In this presentation, I talked about how both CasperJS or Behat could be brought to bear to test a Drupal application and gave some demos of each. The slides are embedded below.

2. Coat Your Website with Varnish at DrupalCamp MD February 2012

   The Drupal community is exploding! I've had the pleasure to speak at two nascent Drupal camps (New Jersey and Maryland) in as many weeks.

   Today I gave a revamped version of my "Coat Your Website with Varnish" session at DrupalCamp MD. I updated some of the information about Drupal configuration and an overview section going over some of the basics of headers and caching.

   The entire presentation is embedded below and is also available on Prezi.com.

3. Let's Be Upfront About Performance at DrupalCamp NJ February 2012

   I just presented "Let's Be Upfront About Performance" as a session at the inaugural DrupalCamp NJ.

   My presentation is embedded below. Go forth and make fast websites!

4. Drush phpsh Integration Demonstration November 2011

   I gave a 5-minute lightning presentation at the October 2011 Drupal NYC meetup about Roger Lopéz's phpsh plugin for drush.

   phpsh is a project by Facebook that provides a much more useful REPL (read-eval-print-loop) environment for PHP, similar to Ruby or Scala. The Drush phpsh plugin adds an easy way to generate ctags for code completion in your phpsh (as well as your favorite editor) and a way to run a persistent PHP session with a fully bootstrapped Drupal instance. It's really useful for testing out APIs.

   If you missed it in person, you can watch the video embedded below.

5. Coat Your Website In Varnish, by Steve Merrill October 2011

   The full presentation is embedded below.

6. Coat Your Website in Varnish July 2011

   Last week at the Drupal NYC meetup, I gave a presentation about the Varnish reverse proxy cache.

7. Color Me Flexible: New options for colorable D7 themes July 2010

   In case you haven't heard: the Bartik theme is now in core and, after some refinement, will be the default theme for Drupal 7. This is thanks to the phenomenal effort of many contributors from around the world.

   I've been happy to help out on Bartik over the past several months and have worked quite a bit on improving the core color module's usefulness to themers who want recolorable themes. Tonight I gave an impromptu talk to the NYC Drupal user group about D7's color.module and Bartik.

8. Scaling Drupal: Not IF... HOW March 2009

   What do Fast Company, The Big Money, The Onion, Lifetime Television, SonyBMG, Flex.org, DressupChallenge.com, and NowPublic have in common?

   All are popular sites, some with traffic of a million or more pageviews a day. But there's more.

   They all run on Drupal.

   Some people still ask if Drupal can scale. We say, "It's not a question of IF, but HOW".

   Come and hear how we scale sites like myLifetime.com, TheBigMoney.com, and DressUpChallenge.com.

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